A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire #223 - Sort mechanical-biological: A plant that smells gas (fr) [machine translation]

On November 17, a protest against domestic plants using sorting methods and 
mechanical-biological digestion was attended by over 300 people from collective 
Romainville (93), Ivry (94), Angers, Montpellier. The Ministry of Environment has refused 
to receive a delegation but has sent the cops! ---- The method of waste sorting 
mechanical-biological (TMB) and methane is very similar to a false good idea. From first 
glance, the gas and compost our garbage unsorted be quite nice. But problems are mounting: 
explosions, odors, gas just enough self-operation of the facility, compost rejected by 
many countries in Europe ... At the end of the chain, we are left with a factory ... gas 
whose remnants are just good to be landfilled or incinerated as if they had not been 
treated: a step industrial costly for taxpayers and ultimately useless.

In reality the process is in two stages: first the dried contents of our garbage in large 
cylinders which rotate continuously and automatically sorting would be assured. Problem: 
biological waste, which are to be recovered in wet fermentation tanks where methane 
evaporates and the compost is, were mixed and contaminated materials in contact with our 
various toxic garbage (plastic residues household products, etc.).. A plant of this type, 
the largest ever built in Europe, is Romainville project (93).

Process of interest questionable

In fact, to produce a readable and useful compost on agricultural land should be put in 
place to sort in homes and a specific collection of biodegradable waste. It exists in many 
European countries. It is also proposed that the association Arivem [ 1 ]], bringing 
together residents who do not refuse a plant to treat their waste but challenging the 
establishment of the plant while the technology is not controlled, it confirmed by the 
residents of Montpellier and Angers where this type of plant is already running.

In 93, the mobilization of the population in the spring, when the project was in soft, had 
torn a moratorium and audit of independent experts. Expertise note that the possible 
explosion of a silo affect populated areas and a school, and if the pollution from the 
plant is expected to remain below the standards we forgot to adding to the pollution 
already present , promised that the fumes in case of fire, do not come out of the limits 
of ownership of the factory and finally recognize the compost meets French, but not to the 
European standard being validated.

Pressure on elected

The Syndicat intercommunal (Syctom) chaired by the PS Paris is the decision maker for the 
project site is already a waste giant whose residents accept the necessity. The final vote 
is scheduled for December 19. Meanwhile the local elected representatives, under pressure 
from their populations, vote one after the other against the project Romainville, 
Noisy-le-Sec, Bobigny Drancy ... It was time, but their political parties do not express . 
Even the Greens divided on the subject, do not take position. We can therefore fear a 
purely electoral one year with municipal elected representatives who can say they were 
against but whose colleagues Syctom vote majority in the project.

At the time of going to press, AL 93 [ 2 ]] 93 NPA and the only political organizations 
that were against the project must challenge the departmental federations left parties so 
that they take a clear position.

But only allow mobilization to block the realization of this project. A demonstration will 
be held on polling day Syctom. And if the elected representatives refuse to listen to 
before we go to bed excavators. The battle can still be won!

AL collective Seine-Saint-Denis

[ 1 ] See [www.arivem.free.fr-> www.arivem.free.fr

[ 2 ] More info on our blog: [www.libertaires93.org-> www.libertaires93.org
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